On Thursday 11 January 2007 20:32, Rod.. Whitworth wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 07:57:44 +0100, Rico Secada wrote: > >On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:47:38 -0800 > > > >"Greg Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 1/10/07, Francisco Valladolid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > I have 202 days using OpenBSD 3.6 as router/firewall/ PPPOE. > >> > > >> > I want to share this screenshot. > >> > > >> > http://farm1.static.flickr.com/147/353353577_e8e875083d_o.jpg > >> > >> Wow, I am impressed, your dick is waaaay bigger than mine because I > >> have become a eunuch for the kingdom of heaven's sake. (Matthew > >> 19:12) My uptime is permanently stuck at zero now. > >> > >> Greg > > > >We all know that a "long" uptime means neglect, but that doesn't mean we > > should reply in a dumb way like that! > > > >Why the hell do you always feel you have to make people wanna go away!? > > Actually the thing you seem to have missed is that the OP's boot time > was when the version used was already out of support. > > 3.6 became unsupported on the release of 3.8 on November 1 2005. That's > a lot more than 202 days ago. > > And yes, Greg was not dumb. His riposte was particularly apposite in > the way it referenced the original post. > > Sadly humour rarely crosses language barriers and so I know only one > joke which can be literally translated from French to English and still > be funny and AFAIK it doesn't work in German or Spanish or Italian. > > Maybe you just didn't get the satire in Greg's reply....... Trust me - > to an EFL person with any kind of clue (including the biblical > reference) it was, at the very least, humourous. > > Chill out a bit, ok?
I love this list. By paying close attention I have realised it is possible to learn all sorts of things, not all OpenBSD related.... (Yes, it there was a joke in Greg's response, relating to the biblical reference, and also I know now the definitions of 'riposte' and 'apposite').